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LOT 2071
Viking Silver Stamped Broad Axe Pendant
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (10.71 grams, 52.11 mm).
Wire hoop; free-running triangular pendant decorated with two bands of stamped opposed pellet-in-triangle motifs to each face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
LiteratureCf. Fuglesang, S.H., Viking and medieval amulets in Scandinavia in Fornvännen, Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research, 1989, no.84, pp.15-27.
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